The Tuskegee Institute Community Education Program (TICEP) was the third pillar of the 3T’s Movement
In September of 1965, TICEP began and operated in all the TISEP counties except Jefferson County. TICEP operated in 12 Black Belt Counties: Barbour, Bullock, Coosa, Crenshaw, Elmore, Lee, Lowndes, Macon, Montgomery, Pike, Russell, and Tallapoosa, and Jefferson County.
TICEP continued to create opportunities for college students to tutor elementary and secondary school students and adults.
Health workers, social workers, and public- school teachers joined with the college student tutors to provide services to TICEP’s tutees, their families, and communities.
- Replication Conferences for colleges and universities
- Two Peoples Conference
- Distribution Center Expansion
- TICEP Public Health Survey in Lowndes County cited in U. S. Civil Rights Commission report on racial health disparities in Alabama
The program also produced a newspaper, The T.I.C.E.P Journal, covering the program activities at its various sites.
Academic tutoring was the center piece of TICEP as it was in TICAC and TISEP. Specialized Mathematics, Reading and Science Programs were also continued.
Some centers created weekend programs of art, music, drama and athletics.
Hundreds of TICEP Tutees were invited and transported to programs at the Tuskegee Institute campus.
The Tutees also presented plays, choir concerts and story presentations on the Tuskegee Institute campus. Small groups of Tutees had an opportunity to stay in the college dorms on weekends, chaperoned by their Tutors.
Tutees were encouraged and supported in writing poems and stories, drawing pictures, and telling jokes to be published under their own names in the TICEP Journal. (The newspaper of the Tuskegee Institute Community Education Program)
Academic contests including spelling bees, math problem solving contests and reading drills were held in and across the Centers. Athletic contests covering a range of different sports were also held regularly.
The Adult Education program was expanded with regular evening classes.
Because TICEP was a longer-term program we organized seven departments. These were:
